Calla

[molucca]

A lilly.

Rich

[Burpee]

Really fabulous effect. It looks like a watercolor...nice.

[molucca]

Nancy,

An image prepared for a Streamline trace. The stem was merging with the background and the blue separated the background.

A bitmap copy of the Streamline trace. A Sketch render of the bitmap copy texturized in XXP.

A saturating image from the original recolored gray. This saturated the flower and not the background.

Rich

[Burpee]

I kind of understand. You made a mask (the grayed saturated image) and somehow used that to only effect the flower portion of the image.

What is a 'Streamline trace'? From another program?

[molucca]

Streamline 4 was an early Abobe tracing program. I believe it was included in Illustrator in the later years. It appear to still be available (cheap). I like the way it posterizes the image, but too much vector to use. So, a bitmap copy is fine. I delete the vector drawing.

It does save to an EPS that XXP can read.

I recolored a copy of the image. Recolor light or dark. Then XXP saturation transparency to saturate the images below. You can recolor while the image is in saturation transparency mode. Just recolor to adjust the saturation. Black will desaturate and white will saturate. Gray gives a variation.

Rich

[raynerj1]

Nice one Rich.

[molucca]

John,

A few things are beginning to bloom.

Rich

[wizard509]

A lilly.

Rich

I like that a whole lot Rich. It sure doesn't look like it was done from a photo.

[molucca]

Larry,

There are lots of other things that will work. This was with Xero serious fog. There a few Free Flamingpear plugins, also. There is a large group of free Xero plugins.

The plugin I used returned a border. That happens with some plugins. The new versions of Mezzoforce return a border with XXP as a host. The lite versions are free, and will do 1000 pixels. The older version returned with a clear transparent area when using a PNG/alpha. The new versions can be foggy, but correctable in XXP.

Rich

[molucca]

With a Little Ink Pot Filter.

Rich